BioShock - Easy way of killing Big Daddy39s

Easy way of killing Big Daddy's:
Use 2-3 of the crossbow trap ammo on a big daddy, first line up 3 traps spaced apart in a line going across a room and then shoot the big daddy from a distance so he runs towards you. Stand where he will come for you, but go through the traps instead he will die after he hits them.

How to kill a big daddy on hard mode:
First make sure you have the crossbow. Then on Apollo Square find a rosie, make sure you have it fully reserched.Then take out your crossbow [also have trap bolts and lots of them] shoot like 10-15 bolts on the wall. Attack the the rosie drag it to the trap bolts, hide then let the bolts do the rest.

Restore hacked robot's health:
After hacking a robot, it will begin firing at your enemies. If the robot gets hit it will begin to lose health, catch on fire, and eventually blow up. To stop this from happening, deactivate the robot press A while pointing at the robot, then reactivate it a few seconds later. This should make the robot have full health again.

Easy kills:
From the start you will have a wrench and the Electric Bolt Plasmid at your disposal. Using these is rapid succession against most Splicers can often result in an efficient, quick kill. First, shock the Splicer. Before the convulsion ends, switch out the wrench, aim high, and hit the Splicer over the head. The most efficient way of eliminating the agile Spider Splicers however is to unleash a few clips of anti-personnel ammo, preferably from the machine gun.

Defeating: Frank Fontaine
To defeat Frank Fontaine very fast, when you first enter the room hit him with the tool the Little Sisters gave you. Fight him when he throws you off. Once he is back on the bed, run up and hit him again with the tool to drain his Adam. This works a lot faster due to him only have four or five jars of Adam to drain, and the fights are not very long afterwards.

Defeating Peach Wilkins:
When the dark cloud envelopes the icy battlefield upon which you must face Peach Wilkins, save the game and locate the hostile turret at the end of the room when the cloud clears. Load the game and run to it before the cloud clears, so that you can quickly freeze or shock it. Then, hack it so it shoots your enemies. Crouch down by the area to your right when facing the turret. There are a few barriers here to protect you from enemy fire. However, to avoid damage by Wilkins' grenades, keep Telekinesis as your active Plasmid. He will avoid the turret's fire, but as long as you stay behind the barriers by the turret he will stay at a safe distance. This gives you time to calmly return his grenades using Telekinesis until he dies. The turret will take out most of the Splicers. This method makes things much easier because it eliminates the hectic "run around and whack people with the wrench" strategy that is otherwise your only option. That turret if not used as an ally would probably be the main cause of your death, along with the bots triggered by the security camera. By hiding near the allied turret however, you also hide from the camera's view.

Defeating Rosies:
When fighting a Rosie, use armor piercing rounds from the machine gun or pistol. For a more effective way of killing, launch frag grenades and run out a door. The Rosie will follow you, fire proximity mines at the door, and when it walks through it will be damaged or destroyed.

Defeating security robots:
If you are up against a stationary security robot RPG, etc., use Telekenesis to grab a crate or pallet. Hold it in front of you until you can find a place to hide and plan what to do next. The item you hold up will block some attacks.

Defeating Atlas Fontaine:
This is the final Boss and he has three different styles of attacks:. Flame Plasmid Form, Ice Plasmid Form, and Electric Plasmid Form. The easiest way to defeat him in the first part is to use your Ice Plasmid and freeze him. Then, switch to your Telekinesis Plasmid. Grab an explosive tank and throw it at him. Also, if desired, just use your telekinesis. He is very predictable if you are far away from him. Wait for him to throw a fire ball at you then move out of the way. He will continue to run past you. Use this chance to fire the machine gun, which does the most damage to him. Once he goes back to his chamber to gain his life back, change to the Flame Plasmid and get ready for some bots. Once he starts his routine of fire and run, blast again him with the Flame Plasmid . The more you blast him, the faster he loses life. Continue to use the machine gun while he is aflame. He will now go back to his chamber one last time. He now has electrical powers. Keep your Flame Plasmid ready. This time, shoot him with the Flame Plasmid and he will run for the water. Once he jumps in the water and comes back out, hit him with it again. Be aware that there are splicers all over as well. Also set them ablaze to get some extra life. There are many different ways to defeat him but this seemed to be the easiest.

"Little Sister Savior" achievement:
Do not harvest a single Little Sister throughout the game. Tenebaum will reward you with gifts including Adam every time you rescue three Little Sisters. This proves more effective, as you get the same amount of Adam as you would if you harvested them but you also get the achievement.

"Tonic Collector" achievement:
When buying Plasmids, Tonics, and Upgrades from the Gatherer's Garden, always buy the Tonics first. Then, make sure you search every area for other Tonics. When you reach Point Prometheus there will be three Tonics to find. The rest of the Tonics are available in the Gatherer's Garden. This will ensure you get the achievements. Note: To check how many Tonics you have, go to a Gene Bank and count each "track".

Reaching Fontaine's penthouse:
The code to get to Fontaine's penthouse is from the diary: "5744".
Steven Procopio.

Weapon Upgrade Station locations:
brandon mizera, Grim Reaper, and Felipe Roriz.

1: In Peach Wilkins' hideout Neptune's Bounty, bottom floor. As soon as you come downstairs it is directly in front of you.

2: On the way to Farmer's Market in Arcadia, the station is located to the left after you go up the first stairs coming from Tree Farm.

3: The Winery's basement in Farmer's Market. There is a flooded area with one of them attached to the wall. It is in front of you when you come down the stairs; just keep going forward.

4: In Fort Frolic, from the Atrium bottom floor, go towards the bathrooms. Then, move right and follow the path until you see some small stairs to your right leading up to a door. Go inside then go down into the basement. The basement is filled with cigars and the like. The upgrade station is on the wall.

5: Go to Poseidon Plaza in Fort Frolic. Go to the other end of the bottom floor the opposite end of where you enter. Go into Sinclair Spirits the room that has a corpse on a sort of "altar". In the basement of this store is the station.

6: In Hephaestus Core Room, go down to the bottom floor and run around literary. Eventually you will see it attached to the wall.

7: In Hephaestus, Kyburz's office. It is attached to the left wall back turned to the entrance in the rear of the room.

8: At the bottom floor of the Mercury Suites area, on the back of the center pillar.

9: In Sander Cohen's secret room, in the Olympus Heights' Mercury Suites area.

10: Go to Atlas' Headquarters in Apollo Square Fontaine's Home For The Poor area. It is located on the fourth floor. Go down the stairs in the room and look to the right. The station will be in front of you.

11: When you enter Point Prometheus and chase Fontaine, eventually you will end up in a little square and Fontaine will go behind a locked Museum door. At the opposite end of this square from where you came is a dead Big Daddy. Next to it is the upgrade.

12: In the Voice changing labs in Point Prometheus, one of the labs has it.

Hint: Audio Dairy locations
This is a list of all 122 audio diaries to get the "Historian" achievement.
Felipe Roriz.

Audio Diary name Speaker Location
1
New Year's Eve Alone Diane McClintock Kashmir Bottom Floor on top of table
2
Hole in the Bathroom Wall Steve Barker Kashmir Restaurant in the "Dames" bathroom
3
Released Today Diane McClintock Medical Pavilion Foyer on the reception desk
4
Adam's Changes Steinman Emergency Access on the desk
5
Higher Standards Steinman Medical Pavilion Foyer near entrance on wall
6
Parasite Expectations Andrew Ryan Medical Pavilion Foyer near surgery on desk
7
Limits of Imagination Steinman Medical Pavilion Foyer by Eternal Flame's wall
8
Love for Science Tenenbaum Medical Pavilion Foyer near health station
9
Vandalism Andrew Ryan Medical Pavilion Foyer near vending machines
10
Freezing Pipes McDonagh Medical Pavilion Foyer near bottom of stairs
11
Surgery's Picasso Steinman Eternal Flame entrance near memorial
12
Enrage Trial Suchong Kure All corner of main room
13
Plasmids are the Paint Suchong Painless Dental desk in the corner
14
Useless Experiments Tenenbaum Dandy Dental floor near entrance
15
Testing Telekinesis Suchong Dandy Dental on the floor by Gatherer's Garden
16
Symmetry Steinman Surgery Foyer wall by debris pile
17
Aphrodite Waking Steinman Surgery desk in northern OR
18
Not What She Wanted Steinman Surgery in the corpse on table the doctor worked on
19
Gatherer's Vulnerability Steinman Lounge on the floor by Gatherer's Garden
20
Bathysphere Keys Sullivan Lower Wharf under south end of the boardwalk
21
Timmy H. Interrogation Sullivan Lower Wharf in the water of the interrogation room
22
Fontaine Must Go Andrew Ryan Lower Wharf crawl under the metal grating by the pipes
23
Finding the Sea Slug Tenenbaum Upper Wharf table by the stairwell entrance
24
Masha Come Home Marista Lutz Upper Wharf floor by Little Sister
25
Picked Up Timmy H Sullivan Upper Wharf near Little Sister in the corpse
26
Watch Fontaine Andrew Ryan Upper Wharf next to the Circus of values machine
27
Have My Badge Sullivan Wharfmaster's Office on desk
28
Adam Discovery Tenenbaum Upper Wharf in crate below the wharfmaster's office
29
Eden Leaking McDonagh Upper Wharf hallway going towards Jet Postal
30
Fontaine's Smugglers Tenenbaum Jet Postal bench in glass tube
31
Death Penalty in Rapture Andrew Ryan Jet Postal desk by vending machine
32
Smuggling Ring Sullivan Fighting McDonagh center bar table
33
Working Late Again Andrew Ryan Fighting McDonagh window bar table
34
Rapture Changing McDonagh Fighting McDonagh desk in basement office
35
Meeting Ryan McDonagh Fighting McDonagh crawl through the water- filled ventilation shaft towards the Gene Bank
36
Arresting Fontaine McDonagh Fighting McDonagh room 6 upstairs
37
Saw Masha Today Marista Lutz Fighting McDonagh room 7 upstairs
38
Putting the Screws On Peach Wilkins Freezer Bottom Floor next to safe
39
Meeting With Fontaine Peach Wilkins Storage Cave ground by crates
40
Kraut Scientist Frank Fontaine Control Room Lower Floor in locked storage cave
41
Offered a Deal Peach Wilkins Submarine Bay on dock towards Arcadia
42
Seeing Ghosts McDonagh Tea Garden floor left of entrance
43
Mass Producting Adam Tenenbaum Tea Garden floor near chairs
44
Big Night Out Dieter Sonnekalb Tea Garden floor near ghost bench
45
Arcadia Closed Langford Tea Garden desk near Gene Bank
46
The Market is Patient Andrew Ryan Waterfall Grottos bench near U-Invent
47
Early Tests Promising Langford Waterfall Grottos near water wheel
48
Offering a Better Product Andrew Ryan Waterfall Grottos near water wheel
49
Heroes and Criminals Diane McClintock Waterfall Grottos in locked machinery room
50
Shouldn't Have Come Mariska Lutz Lower Rolling Hills bench near stairs
51
The Saturnine Langford Lower Rolling Hills cave behind waterfall
52
Arcadia and Oxygen Langford Tree Farm near crate at entrance
53
What Won't They Steal Langford Research Laboratories near entrance
54
Teaching an Old Hound Langford Research Laboratories table in second room
55
Lazarus Vector Langford Langford's Office in Julie Langford's body
56
Lazarus Vector Formula Langford Langford's Office in Julie's wall safe
57
Maternal Instinct Tenenbaum Tree Farm on the steps towards Farmer's Market
58
Bee Enzyme Tasha Denu Farmers Market ground near pneumo tube
59
First Encounter Andrew Ryan Farmers Market near Bouncer corpse
60
Hatred Tenenbaum Farmers Market lower storage room desk
61
Desperate Times Andrew Ryan Farmers Market near freezer crawlspace
62
Pulling Together Andrew Ryan Farmers Market on meat market counter
63
Water in Wine Pierre Gobbi Farmers Market near winery sign
64
Adam Explained Tenenbaum Silverwing Apiary near entrance counter
65
Functional Children Tenenbaum Winery on the back table
66
The Great Chain Andrew Ryan Arcadia Metro Station bench right of entrance
67
Musical Insult Sander Cohen Fleet Hall Theatre storage room near guitar
68
The Doubters Sander Cohen Cohen's Collection downstairs table
69
Come to the Record Store Cobb Southern Mall on table outside of the restroom
70
The Wild Bunny Sander Cohen Sophia Salon in closet behind counter
71
Artist's Feud Sullivan Cocktail Lounge above the bar safe
72
Fancy Cigarettes Albert Milonakis Le Marquis D'Epogue downstairs near corpse
73
The Iceman Cometh Martin Finnegan Frozen Tunnel left of entrance hall
74
Stood Up Again Diane McClintock Upper Atrium top of stairs near Fleet Hall's entrance
75
Guns Blazing McDonagh Robertson's Tobaccoria table near entrance
76
Pregnancy Jasmine Jolene Eve's Garden under bed behind stage
77
It's All Grift Hector Rodriguez Eve's Garden on the bar
78
Fontaine's Army McDonagh Sir-Prize left of stairs in crate
79
Bumb Culpepper? Sullivan Pharoah's Fortune on pool table upstairs
80
Ryan's Stableboy Anna Culpepper Rapture Records behind entrance counter
81
Requiem for Andrew Ryan Sander Cohen Projection Booth on office table
82
Ryan Takes F Futuristics McDonagh Hephaestus Bathysphere St. crate near the Circus of Values machine
83
Scooping the Gate Kyburz Outside Ryan's Office near the Circus of Values machine
84
Stopping Ryan McDonagh Ryan's Office first corpse on right
85
Going to Heat Loss Anya Andersdotter Outside Ryan's Office forth corpse on right
86
A Man or a Parasite Andrew Ryan Hephaestus Core desk outside of bunks
87
Fontaine's Legacy McDonagh Hephaestus Core near Vita-Chamber on the walkway
88
Assassin Anya Andersdotter Hephaestus Core near Gatherer's Garden
89
Kyburz Door Code Pablo Navarro Heat Loss Monitoring floor in the corner
90
Genetic Arms Race McDonagh Lower Heat Loss Monitoring on desk in flooded area
91
Getting a Break Pablo Navarro Lower Heat Loss Monitoring on desk near tonic
92
Impossible Anywhere Else Andrew Ryan Hephaestus Core desk at bottom walkway
93
Running Short on R-34s Pablo Navarro Hephaestus Core desk outside the Workshops entrance
94
Device Almost Finished Kyburz Lower Workshops office desk at bottom of the stairs
95
Great Chain Moves Slowly Andrew Ryan Kyburz's Office desk in back of room
96
The Dream Kyburz Lower Workshops corpse in middle of room
97
Assembling the Bomb Kyburz Lower Workshops secret crawlspace desk
98
Market Maintenance Code Pablo Navarro Lower Workshops crawlspace under stairs
99
The Vita Chamber Suchong Control Room desk left of entrance
100
Mind Control Test Suchong Control Room on table beneath photos
101
Baby Status Suchong Control Room on table beneath photos
102
Mozart of Genetics Suchong Olympus Heights Bistro Square snack bar
103
Artist Woman Sullivan Culpepper's Apartment main room's corner table
104
Fontaine's Homan Jukebox Suchong Suchong's Apartment on floor in south room
105
Mind Control Antidote Suchong Suchong's Apartment on desk next to tonic
106
Fontaine's Breakup Paparazzi Mercury Suites near U-Invent machine on the walkway
107
Sad Saps Frank Fontaine Fontaine's Apartment coffee table near cigars
108
What's Happening Here? Diane McClintock Apollo Square on the ground near Circus of Values
109
Atlas Lives Diane McClintock Apollo Square near Gatherer's Garden
110
Protection Bond Suchong Artemis Suites Suchong's office floor
111
Meeting Atlas Diane McClintock Hestia Chambers right of entrance
112
The Longest Con Frank Fontaine Atlas' Headquarters on desk next of tonic
113
Today's Raid Diane McClintock Atlas' Headquarters in corpse near the safe
114
Changing Employers Suchong Main Hall melt the ice, enter the closet upstairs, search the trash can
115
Why Just Girls? Tenenbaum Atrium Balcony on desk in second floor of orphanage
116
Extra Munitions Suchong Plasmid Prototyping ground near RPG turret
117
Marketing Gold Andrew Ryan Test Subject Storage on machine in right part of room near water
118
Missing Boots Suchong Candidate Conversion Area desk in back of room
119
Protector Smell Suchong Suit Assembly machinery 2nd floor SW
120
Protecting Little Ones Suchong Suit Assembly desk 2nd floor SE room
121
Mistakes Andrew Ryan Suit Assembly near the Gene Bank
122
Cheap Son of a Bitch Suchong Storage small storage area's desk

Slot machine:
Save the game before you start playing. Just keep reloading the game until you hit it.

Save game recommendation:
After becoming a Big Daddy, make a new saved game. At this point you are near the end of the game. If you missed something you can go to the bathysphere and explore Rapture again, but also you are a Big Daddy now so the splicers will not harm you, security cameras will not set off alarms, etc.

Pac Man reference:
In the Arcadia level, you will find a place that appears to be a bar. Search around a bit and you will see a block of cheese, followed by holes. The cheese is cut like Pac-Man himself. There are holes next to it, none of which can be gun shots. If you shoot the floor with any weapon you have, the marks will not match.

Star Wars reference:
Get to the point when you reach the medical pavilion and must unlock the doors. When you pull the first switch and go to the second, pull it and Atlas will say "Now you have stirred the Wookie cage"

Easy way of killing Big Daddy's:
Use 2-3 of the crossbow trap ammo on a big daddy, first line up 3 traps spaced apart in a line going across a room and then shoot the big daddy from a distance so he runs towards you. Stand where he will come for you, but go through the traps instead he will die after he hits them.

Achievements:
Complete the following achievements to unlock Xbox Live Gamerscore points.

Completed Welcome 10 points: Successfully complete the Welcome To Rapture Level.

Maxed One Track 20 points: Purchased every slot in one of the Plasmid or Tonic tracks.

Maxed All Tracks 50 points: Purchased every slot in all four Plasmid and Tonic tracks.

Bought One Slot 5 points: Purchase one slot in any Plasmid or Tonic track.

Upgraded a Weapon 5 points: Acquire at least one weapon upgrade.

One Fully Upgraded Weapon 5 points: Fully upgrade one weapon.

Two Fully Upgraded Weapons 5 points: Fully upgrade two weapons.

Three Fully Upgraded Weapons 10 points: Fully upgrade three weapons.

Four Fully Upgraded Weapons 10 points: Fully upgrade four weapons.

Five Fully Upgraded Weapons 10 points: Fully upgrade five weapons.

Weapon Specialist 20 points: Acquire all upgrades for all weapons.

Fully Researched Thug Splicer 10 points: Fully research the Thuggish Splicer.

Fully Researched Gun Splicer 10 points: Fully research the Leadhead Splicer.

Fully Researched Spider Splicer 10 points: Fully research the Spider Splicer.

Fully Researched Houdini Splicer 10 points: Fully research the Houdini Splicer.

Fully Researched Nitro Splicer 10 points: Fully research the Nitro Splicer.

Fully Researched Rosie 10 points: Fully research the Rosie.

Fully Researched Bouncer 10 points: Fully research the Bouncer.

Fully Researched Little Sister 10 points: Fully research the Little Sister.

Prolific Photographer 5 points: Take at least one photo in every research group.

Research PhD 20 points: Max out all possible research.

Quality Research Photo 5 points: Take a Research Photo of the highest grade.

Researched a Splicer 5 points: Take at least one Research Photo of a Splicer.

One Successful Hack 5 points: Perform at least one successful hack.

Hacked a Security Bot 10 points: Successfully hack a security bot.

Hacked a Security Camera 10 points: Successfully hack a security camera.

Hacked a Turret 10 points: Successfully hack a turret.

Hacked a Vending Machine 10 points: Successfully hack a vending machine.

Hacked a Safe 10 points: Successfully hack a safe.

Skilled Hacker 40 points: Successfully complete 50 hacks.

Basic Inventor 5 points: Successfully invent at least one item.

Avid Inventor 10 points: Successfully invent at least 100 items.

Ammo Inventor 25 points: Successfully invented all possible ammo types.

Little Sister Savior 100 points: Complete the game without harvesting any Little Sisters.

Tonic Collector 50 points: Collect or Invent 53 Tonics in the Physical, Engineering and Combat tracks.

Historian 50 points: Find every audio diary.

Seriously Good At This 40 points: Complete the game on the hardest difficulty setting.

Dealt with every Little Sister 40 points: Either Harvest or Rescue every Little Sister in the game.

Lucky Winner 10 points: Hit the jackpot at a slot machine.

Toaster in the Tub 10 points: Shock an enemy in the water.
Additionally, there are ten secret achievements:

Defeated Dr. Steinman 15 points: Defeat the crazed Dr. Steinman.

Defeated Peach Wilkins 15 points: Defeat Peach Wilkins.

Restored the Forest 15 points: Restore the forests of Arcadia.

Completed Cohen's Masterpiece 30 points: Complete Sander Cohen's great masterpiece.

Defeated Andrew Ryan 30 points: Defeate Andrew Ryan.

Broke Fontaine's Mind Control 30 points: Break Fontaine's mind control.

Defeated Atlas 100 points: Defeat Atlas.

Became a Big Daddy 30 points: Become a Big Daddy.

Irony 10 points: Take a picture of Sander Cohen's corpse.

Found Cohen's Room 10 points: Enter Sander Cohen's personal quarters.